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Kevin McCarthy

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Kevin Owen McCarthy is an American politician serving as the House Minority Leader since January 3, 2019. He has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since January 4, 2007, representing California's 20th congressional district. A member of the Republican Party, McCarthy has played a significant role in shaping party strategy and policy in Congress, particularly during times of Democratic leadership. He has been involved in various legislative efforts and has been a vocal advocate for conservative principles.

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July 16, 2026

We want to... strengthen Medicare and Social Security.

Kevin McCarthy

Jul 16, 2026

We cannot continue the waste that is happening. We cannot continue just to spend more money and leverage the debt of the future of America.

cbsnews.com
Jun 26, 2026

He’s going to try everything he can to make sure he passes that through.

foxnews.com
Jun 8, 2026

Gavin changed a number of election laws in which you want to see is what did he do and why did he cause it?

foxnews.com
Jun 8, 2026

When Gavin Newsom was elected governor of California, you knew who was elected in a day to two days. Now it takes more than weeks, almost a month.

foxnews.com
Jun 6, 2026

We cannot continue just to spend more money and leverage the debt of the future of America.

cbsnews.com
Jun 6, 2026

We want to... take those off the table. We want to strengthen Medicare and Social Security.

cbsnews.com
Jun 6, 2026

We've got to get our spending under control.

cbsnews.com
Jun 5, 2026

I want to find a reasonable and a responsible way that we can lift the debt ceiling, but take control of this runaway spending.

cbsnews.com
Jun 5, 2026

We want to take Social Security and Medicare off the table.

cbsnews.com
Mar 31, 2026

Anytime you listen to a Freedom Caucus strategy, one of two things happen: you end up in either a cul-de-sac or the minority.

nbcnews.com
Jan 10, 2026

The violence, destruction, and chaos we saw earlier was unacceptable, undemocratic, and un-American.

theatlantic.com
Oct 22, 2025

I call it the 'Seinfeld' shutdown because it's a shutdown about nothing.

cbsnews.com
Sep 11, 2025

He said, we have to ask as a nation, who are we? And how do we want to move forward?

breitbart.com
Sep 11, 2025

If there’s a moment in time you want to look to, and I looked back and I watched this again when Robert F. Kennedy is running, he’s in Indianapolis, and he just got the news that Martin Luther King was killed.

breitbart.com
Sep 11, 2025

I don’t even say parties, I say a nation.

breitbart.com
Aug 21, 2025

I believe the voters should have the say that’s all this is about.

breitbart.com
Aug 21, 2025

The only person who’s going around their constitution right now is Gavin.

breitbart.com
Aug 21, 2025

We have a governor who spends more time on this instead of trying to encourage Bed, Bath and Beyond to move back to California.

breitbart.com
May 13, 2025

the problem is really with Boeing.

cbsnews.com
May 12, 2025

I don’t think another country should be providing America [a plane]. We don’t need that….I think America can afford their own plane and build their own Air Force One.

motherjones.com
Mar 16, 2025

The uniqueness of this party today is we’re the workers party.

msnbc.com

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